Peeping Tom

Mark (Carl Boehm) is a nice, quiet young man whose hobby is photography. To be precise: photographing women at the moment he kills them. Director Michael Powell, who had worked on many of the British cinema’s most imaginative “class” productions (The Thief of Bagdad, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes), practically committed career suicide when he filmed this Leo Marks script about a sexual psychopath (and played the killer’s father). But Peeping Tom stands as one of the most intimate parables of the relation between the voyeurs in the audience — that would be all of us — and the lurid images that give us so much pleasure. Seeing something erotic or grotesque, or both, we crave more. And after Peeping Tom and Psycho (which came out two months later), we got plenty.

A question about "Men Behind the Sun": has anyone actually got to the bottom of what happened during the "cat scene"? I watched an interview between T.F. Mou and JL Carrozza, during which Mou states that the cat was covered in fake blood and not harmed. Are there any other accounts from crew or production stills to verify this?